by ECC Editor | Mar 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
TEXARKANA, Texas — The City Council has begun a project to update its outdoor warning system with three sirens, one located in Spring Lake Park.
“Several of the sirens have been in place since the 70s,” said Tracey Litton, deputy emergency management coordinator with the Texas-side Fire Department. “There is new technology now available that would make this system more effective that the city has decided to incorporate. Also, the maintenance on some of them has become expensive enough to warrant them being replaced.” Twelve of the city’s 13 sirens will eventually be… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Mar 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
CANANDAIGUA N.Y. (WHEC) – A new potentially life-saving tool is at the fingertips of first responders in Ontario County.
As part of an upgrade to its phone system, emergency coordinators at the county’s 9-1-1 center are using a program called “Rapid SOS”, which uses GPS technology in smartphones to speed up response times.
Senior Communications Officer Jeff Edwards says the center takes hundreds of 9-1-1… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
A Northern Kentucky police officer and a dispatcher graduated from their training programs at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training.
Independence Police Officer Douglas M. Wolking was one of thirty-one officers to graduate from the basic training program where major training areas included law offenses and procedures, vehicle operations, firearms, investigations, first aid and CPR, patrol procedures, orientation for new law enforcement families and the mechanics of arrest, restraint and control…
by ECC Editor | Mar 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
Character reveals itself in bad times more than in good.
It would be totally accurate to say that Joe Finn’s character revealed itself at any number of fires he has worked over the last 36 years, none more so than a horrible March day in the Back Bay in 2014, when the wind howled with a mournful evil, as if it had originated in hell.
Joe Finn was the deputy chief in charge of that wind-whipped fire and he had to make the hardest decision in his life, which was to pull everybody working the fire out of the building, even though two firefighters were trapped inside…
by ECC Editor | Mar 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
When you call them, they still come.
On a recent morning, Vikram Gupta scrambled out of a Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad ambulance and took two-at-a-time the stairs of a city home where an elderly man fell in a second-story bedroom.
Behind followed driver Madison Floyd, who grabbed equipment from the ambulance, and Virginia Leavell carrying a backpack heavy with medical supplies…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
Irondequoit’s Police Chief Richard Tantalo will be taking the helm as Monroe County’s director of safety.
It was one of five new appointments announced by Monroe County Executive Adam Bello on Monday.
Tantalo, 63, of Irondequoit, whose law enforcement career spanned more than 40 years, has been Irondequoit’s police chief since October 2013. Most of his career (38 years) was spent in Irondequoit…
